These are excerpts from three articles, the first from the New York Times on New Gingrich's former money man Sheldon Adelson, the second from the Times on Romney contributors Laura R. Schwartz and Rody Mehdizadeh, the third from the Daily Kos on the same Hamptons fundraiser that Schwartz and Mehdizadeh attended:

“The question of what motivates Mr. Adelson’s singular generosity toward the former House speaker has emerged front and center in the campaign. People who know him say his affinity for Mr. Gingrich stems from a devotion to Israel as well as loyalty to a friend. A fervent Zionist who opposes any territorial compromise to make way for a Palestinian state, Mr. Adelson has long been enamored of Mr. Gingrich’s full-throated defense of Israel.

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“…Mr. Adelson experienced something of an awakening after his first visit to Israel in 1988, when he was in his mid-50s.

“‘He fell in love with the country,’ said Ted Cutler, an early business partner.

“This coincided with his divorce from his first wife, Sandra. Not long after his trip, he encountered a friend, Sara Aronson, at a Boston restaurant. Mr. Adelson talked excitedly of Israel and mentioned that he was interested in meeting Israeli women, Ms. Aronson recalled.

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“After the couple [Adelson’s second wife] married in 1991, Mr. Adelson’s visits to Israel became so frequent that he told friends he was contemplating settling there.

"He also became one of the biggest donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobby, and joined its executive committee.”

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"A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney. 'Is there a V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P.' 

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"Laura R. Schwartz, the woman inside the Range Rover and a fund-raiser, complained that Mr. Obama had not visited Israel as president, a slight to the country, in her eyes. 'I don’t think he is good for Israel,' she said. Mr. Romney, she said, 'is a fresh face.'

"Her companion, Rody Mehdizadeh, who said he manufactures laundry detergent, praised Mr. Romney’s business acumen, calling him 'somebody who can lead the country in a more enterprise-driven way.'”

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"A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. 'I don't think the common person is getting it,' she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. 'Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.

"'We've got the message,' she added. 'But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact.'"

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This is Republican greed, elitism, selfishness and arrogance.  In the case of Adelson, Schwartz, and Mehdizadeh, it is also American Jewish greed, elitism, selfishness, and arrogance. I resent both. I particularly resent the primacy of the interests of a foreign country, Israel, in the political decisions of Adelson and Schwartz in a presidential election in America. It is not right and it is not fair to America. But then, these are not fair people. 

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